Q) The Venetian Renaissance painter Vittore Carpaccio used sumptuous reds in most of his paintings.Since the recently discovered Venetian Renaissance painting Erato Declaiming contains notable sumptuous reds, it is probably by Carpaccio.

Which one of the following conatains a pattern of flawed reasoning most similar to that in the argument above ?

(A) Most Renaissance painters worked in a single medium , either tempera or oil.Since the Renaissance painting Calypso's Bower is in oil,its painter always used oil.

(B) In italian Renaissance painting , the single most common subject was the Virgin and child, so the single most common subject in Western art probably is also the Virgin and Child .

(C) Works of art in the Renaissance were mostly commissioned by patrons, so that Renaissance work The Dances of Terpsichore was probably commissioned by a patron.

(D) The anonymous painting St. Sebastian is probably an early Florentine painting since it is in tempera, and most early Florentine paintings were in tempera.

(E) Since late-Renaissance paintings were mostly in oil, the Venetian late-Renaissance painter Arnoldi, whose work are now lost , probably painted in oil.

Please explain if anyone has understood this clearly.

Line of reasoning: A has a characteristic B. Something is found with characteristic B, then we are concluding that it is nothing but A
Flaw: If Ram's son is Shyam, it does not mean that if we find Shyam he has to be son of Ram

Option D has the same ilne of reasoning

What is the original source of this question?

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